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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Study questions about John's Gospel

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Key Scriptures If you remain faithful to my teaching, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you f...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12:27

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Why does the dominant scholarship about "the body of Christ" in 1 Corinthians emphasize unity, which is the rhetoric of Stoicism?...

Galatians and Circumcision: Matters of Scriptural Interpretation

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Eventually, what matters is how to interpret scripture. Jewish Christians argue that circumcision is a must. Their scriptural basis is Gen...

The Old and New Perspectives on Paul

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Did Paul reject the law or Israel for the sake of faith? But he says that the law is holy and that faith cannot overthrow the law. Christ ...

Rom 3:22 as a Snapshot of Paul's Gospel

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[Courtesy of FreeBibleImages.org] "God's righteousness through Jesus Christ's faithfulness for all who believe" (Rom 3:22)...

Paul and the Good News

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Paul's gospel involves a threefold (tripartite) relationship between God, Christ, and people. God is the good news, which is about the...

Jesus and the good news of God

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What did Jesus proclaim after John was arrested? Mark 1:14 says that he proclaimed "the good news of God." God is the ruler; God...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

What is the essential thing that Paul shares with Jesus?

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Jesus and Paul must be understood within Judaism. Both of them share the following: 1) God-centered good news! The good news is about God ...

The Johannine Dualism as a Transformative Space

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The dualism of John is not a Gnostic type of dualism; it is a transformative space in which the community engages in the world through lov...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Johannine Language: Ironies and Metaphors

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John's Gospel is full of ironies and metaphors. How can we understand them? See my article: "The Johannine Realism about the Kingd...